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Whirlpool will build $55 million plant, employ 1,100 in northern Mexico
Evansville Courier ^ | October 9, 2009 | Ryan Reynolds

Posted on 10/10/2009 5:00:52 PM PDT by Graybeard58

Whirlpool Corp.'s division in Mexico has announced it will build a $55 million plant in the northern city of Apodaca, employing 1,100 people.

That number may sound familiar. The appliance maker announced in August it was shutting down its Evansville manufacturing line in mid-2010 and moving it to Mexico. Evansville's line employs 1,100 people.

Jill Saletta, director of external relations for Whirlpool, confirmed in a statement Friday that the jobs being created in Apodaca are those from the Evansville plant.

"As announced in August, the production of refrigerators currently made at Evansville, and the 1,110 jobs associated with that production, would be transitioning to one of our existing facilities in Mexico, which would be named later," she said. "Yesterday, our Supsa plant, located in Apodaca County, Monterrey, made the announcement that the production and associated jobs would be going to that location."

According to a report on the Web site tradingmarkets.com, the Mexican plant will begin production in 2010 and produce 18- and 23-cubic-foot refrigerators for "both the domestic market and export," according to the report.

Apodaca is a city of 393,000 people about 100 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border at Nuevo Laredo.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Mexico; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: manufacturing; mexico; whirlpool
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To: Graybeard58
Bush's FaultTM.

Haven't you got the memo?

It's a "W"-shaped recession. /sarc>

Full Disclosure: Let's see how many people confuse us now that we're posting to each other on the same thread...

Cheers!

41 posted on 10/10/2009 6:41:46 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Graybeard58

giant sucking sound (/perot)


42 posted on 10/10/2009 6:42:46 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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To: Graybeard58

I used to buy GE every time and then my last dryer only lasted 5 years and it wasn’t worth repairing. My front load GE (which I noticed was made in China) had bearings start going out at about 14 months.

I was dissing Roper with the repairman and he actually said they are the better made since they use some the older more reliable manufacturing methods. So I now have a Roper dryer and it was the cheapest thing at Lowes.


43 posted on 10/10/2009 6:48:29 PM PDT by RushingWater
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To: SandRat
Wonder why there and not here? Oh yeah.. the AFL-CIO.

Don't worry about the union folks. They will find safe haven at GM or Chrysler.

44 posted on 10/10/2009 6:50:35 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
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To: dragnet2
Surely makes for a 'discontented' populous doesn't it? Gee, I think when the Capitol is stormed, attorneys will have a field day 'defending' those people.....after all 'they were driven to it.
45 posted on 10/10/2009 6:50:58 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman (In Defense of Liberty.........Radicalism may be necessary.)
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To: Oatka

But no matter how much it affects all of us, we must be sure that we do nothing to interfere with anybody’s freedom to make an extra buck. What are we anyway, a bunch of socialists? I for one will sleep better tonite knowing that the investors in Whirlpool will recognize more income, and that their executives will get a commission. I will try to find one of said investors, and beg them to trickle down on me!

parsy, who is pretending to be a good little Republican


46 posted on 10/10/2009 6:59:22 PM PDT by parsifal (Abatis: Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside)
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To: All

I have a question. A few weeks ago, there were articles about how Mexico has so much drug violence, corruption, etc. that the government was on the verge of collapse, and tourists were being discouraged from going there. If it is so dangerous, why would companies move there?


47 posted on 10/10/2009 7:01:30 PM PDT by Montanabound
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To: Mind-numbed Robot

Yep, lets blame it on the unions. How dare they expect a decent wage and benefits? Where do they think they are anyway, Germany or something, where they are so unionized that the whole country is starving and broke and nobody has nothing and where all that stuff about being the worlds largest exporter is just socialist propaganda.

parsy, who says dude, quit swallowing the party line. Spit the hook out.


48 posted on 10/10/2009 7:03:36 PM PDT by parsifal (Abatis: Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside)
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To: Graybeard58

More of the sucking sound that everyone laughed at Perot for predicting...

What perfect timing, just when we needed another 0.2% to get us over the official 10% mark nationally.

Thanks Whirlpool.


49 posted on 10/10/2009 7:06:58 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Deficit spending, trade deficits, unsecure mortages, worthless paper... ... not a problem. Oh yeah?)
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To: Montanabound

To make a few extra bucks and because their competition is probably there already and who wants to pay Americans anyway. Investors though, will still want to live here, because you know Mexico has all that crime and poverty and their roads suck, etc.

parsy, who says this is just one more brick in the wall


50 posted on 10/10/2009 7:09:20 PM PDT by parsifal (Abatis: Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside)
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To: Graybeard58

Hopefully our Whirlpool Fridge will last a good long while. Might as well buy a LG or Samsung model next time.


51 posted on 10/10/2009 7:11:24 PM PDT by edge10 (Obama lied, babies died!)
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To: Graybeard58

Does this mean Americans have to go to Mexico to get jobs?


52 posted on 10/10/2009 7:13:57 PM PDT by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: Repeat Offender

The average American’s utility bill is higher than wages in Mexico. Tariffs and higher taxes on companies exporting jobs will run them out of this country and we can get back to making our own stuff again. The stuff you are b*tching about is why our quality of life has been better than most.

parsy, who thinks you are a communist agitator (well not really, but I wanted to start calling names first for a change)


53 posted on 10/10/2009 7:14:39 PM PDT by parsifal (Abatis: Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Why would anyone want to pay $10/hr to an American to do the kind of trained monkey work that costs $1 or less anywhere else in this big world?

The days of dropping out of the 10th grade and working in the local mill for a lifetime is long gone. Lazy, stupid, and greedy ain’t selling anymore, unless it’s a government union job.

Americans had better reinvigorate their work ethic, learn valuable skills, and get rid of their entitlement mentality. Instead of complaining about the competition, we should be coming up with a way to beat them. Here’s a clue: We ain’t gonna beat them with uneducated laborers; there’s a few billion already in line for that job.


54 posted on 10/10/2009 7:33:24 PM PDT by EricT. ("Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government." -George Washington)
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To: ronnie raygun

1100 union workers unemployed is just that much less money donated to the true enemies of America - Obama and the Democrats.

Screw them.


55 posted on 10/10/2009 7:45:41 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: EricT.

More importantly, why would you pay $30/hour to an American who refuses to let you automate your assembly line? That’s the real question. And I am very certain that the true hourly pay of the union workers was closer to $30 than your $10.


56 posted on 10/10/2009 7:47:09 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: RayChuang88

No, they’d still find it advantageous to move. Maybe not to Mexico, but definitely out of Indiana.

Why? U-N-I-O-N-S.


57 posted on 10/10/2009 7:48:24 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Montanabound

Drug violence, corruption, murder.
Union thug violence, corruption, murder.

The only thing that’s different is the name on the front.


58 posted on 10/10/2009 7:50:15 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: grey_whiskers
Let's see how many people confuse us now that we're posting to each other on the same thread...

I often confuse myself.

You can still have fun as you grow older.

59 posted on 10/10/2009 8:00:56 PM PDT by Graybeard58 ( Selah.)
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To: Spktyr

I’m referring to the kind of folks around here who don’t have a sock mill to park their butts in while they grow fat and old. None of them were union. That probably kept the mills around here open a decade longer.

We can still compete in manufacturing, but only with innovation and automation. Whenever you hear someone cry, “Nothing is made in America anymore,” they really mean there aren’t as many unskilled labor jobs for dropouts and dummies. If people really want things to be made in America, it’s going to be made by efficient machines; designed, installed, and maintained by intelligent, educated people.


60 posted on 10/10/2009 8:04:30 PM PDT by EricT. ("Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government." -George Washington)
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